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I told an adoring fan I liked his shirt - many of the local club members wore them showing they were official motorcyclist police of Aguascalientes and the back had a skull riding a motorcycle so he did a strip tease...... and gave me the shirt off his back! so Geezer made him the proud owner of a TBZ shirt Stewie and Stacy, the copilot of the tiny Fiat Abarth, discuss the route of the day in Aguas Team TBZ at the start in Aguas Tom Overbaugh's beautiful original PanAm Lincoln lost its transmission, then they bent an axle on their trailer so we took the car to the TBZ shop where the TBZ guys fixed the axle I ran into Rene's dad taking his mom for a walk outside their shop in Guadalupe! The route at the end of the run up La Bufa. When you see multiple turns on one row of the page, that means they are S turns - one after another. Ralph and Bill of the Hot Rod Lincoln Team get the party started in downtown Zacatecas Bimbo and Rene drive El Jefe back to the shop for more work I fo...

Hola amigos. We had a solid day of racing yesterday and ended up at 40th place for the day. We came through Mexico city at 41 degrees and rain and that was cold! Rene drove in the morning with Stewie navigating and the morning was mostly transit through the mountains, but then they closed Periferico in the heart of Mexico City and raced a fast and straight 5km. In the afternoon Geezer drove with Stewie navigating. I stayed in the service truck all day as I am still a little spooked. In the morning we had a caravan of 3 trucks and trailers going through Mexico City. Behind us was the burned out Corvette from Colorado. I got to talk to both driver and navigator to hear about the experience, which I will relay later. Freaky for sure. In Mexico City we got pulled over by the local police and Geezer had to pay $120 USD because two of the trucks blew a red light. Then the Corvette guys got pulled over and had to pay another $100 USD for some unknown infraction - we think for not ha...

Thank you very mucho to everyone who has emailed, called, texted and left messages on my blog. My phone display broke when we went over the cliff. I can receive calls but can't do anything else - can't even see the screen, it is just a blur of lines like an old fashioned TV channel that went off the air. You can still call me though! I am lucky enough to have the internet this morning, a Go Fast energy drink in my hand and the news that it's daylight savings so it's actually 530am instead of 630am. We ride today from the beautiful city of Puebla, across a mountain pass that reminds me of home, to the world's biggest city - Mexico City. According to Eduardo Leon, the race organizer, they will shut down Periferico in the heart of Mexico City for a very fast speed stage. He said he will believe it when he sees the first green flag. He said this is like closing the 405 in L.A. on a Sunday. My guess is that because it's Mexico, it will go better than planned as peopl...

In front of the beautiful cathedral in downtown Oaxaca at the official start of the race >>>>>Original Post>>>>>>>>>> It's been two days since I've posted and we think we have a good excuse. Rene and I put the car over a cliff in a speed stage in the mountains yesterday. We both came out unscathed and the car was amazingly fine. The pictures don't do it justice and I am at a loss of words to explain due to a lack of sleep, nonexistent diet, inhaling too many gas fumes, cigarette smoke and maybe one extra mezcal. And this is just Day 1. In lieu of words, here are some pictures from yesterday. We heard that 9 cars went off the road in the mountain stages between Oaxaca and Tehuacan. Those mountains were humbling.....unlike any mountains I have experienced in the US, Canada or Europe and in the top 3 of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The good news and the only important news is that as far as we know, there were no inj...